On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 08:01:47AM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:> Also, more importantly, Intel manual says "the update must run in the> early stages of POST and always before L2 cache controllers are> initialized". I ignored it and it still worked fine.

I don't know much about intel microcode, but perhaps a microcode update_may_ change cache handling. So it might work with every microcode update available now (because Intel didn't make any incompatible changes), but may fail with the next one.

Jan

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